HARRISVILLE — The old village hall will begin its final voyage on Columbus Day.

Kascon, a demolition firm from Waterville, is scheduled to tear down the aging structure at 14221 State St. on Monday, then haul away the debris Tuesday and Wednesday, village Trustee William F. Kellerhals said.

The demolition date was selected, in part, because traffic in the area, which includes the post office and Community Bank, will be relatively light on the federal holiday, Mr. Kellerhals said.

"For us, you couldn't have asked for a better deal," he said.

The village has entered a $38,500 contract with low bidder Kascon for asbestos removal and demolition, Mr. Kellerhals said. The company recently removed asbestos from three sections of the two-story building, he said.

The demolition project, being overseen by Watertown architectural firm Bernier, Carr & Associates, will include incidental costs, like tipping fees at the Development Authority of the North Country landfill in Rodman, but that amount has yet to be determined, Mr. Kellerhals said.

Kascon officials are testing the building's concrete foundation to see if it may be broken up and used as hard fill at the site, rather than trucked to Rodman, he said.

"The building was deemed unsafe by Lewis County Code Enforcement officials and had a history of roof and structural problems," the village Web site says. An engineer hired by the village also deemed it unsafe.

Village offices in January were moved out of the old building, constructed of concrete blocks that are now buckling and separating, into the fire hall on Church Street.

They will remain at that site until a permanent location has been selected, which likely will take a while, Mr. Kellerhals said.

"We're taking this one step at a time," he said.

Several options have been discussed, Mr. Kellerhals said. They include rebuilding at the State Street site, moving in with the town of Diana at its office off Route 812, putting an addition on the back of the fire hall and converting a residence into an office building.

"There's no scarcity of ideas," Mr. Kellerhals said.

The village also recently replaced the gazebo on Grand View Island after the original, installed in 2004, was demolished during a windstorm June 10.

"It took a tree down, and the tree took the gazebo down," Mr. Kellerhals said.

A portion of the replacement cost of the gazebo, on the small island in the Oswegatchie River near the Route 3 bridge, was covered by liability insurance, he said.